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Vokabular: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations | HISCO

International vocabulary for classifying activities and qualification levels for historical professions.

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Basic information

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(P34)?Naming:	Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
(P1266)?Abbreviation:	—
(P724)?Digest:	Based on the ISCO version of 1968, Dutch historians and sociologists created a classification system for job titles in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The HISCO system was published web-based with a broad lexicon, numerous language variants and data sets. The service has not been available since 2024. A privately published linked open data version is available as a replacement, but this no longer provides any documentation. These are available via the book publications. The HISCO system was based on the coding of the 1,000 most common male and female job titles in datasets from eight countries: Belgium, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden. The occupational data covers the period from 1690 to 1970, but mostly dates from the 19th century. They contain titles given by or registered for people of all ages in church records and civil registers. The sample selection was aimed at a broad mix of agricultural, industrial and commercial occupations, of old and new technologies, of traditional and modern forms of organisation. Nevertheless, the programme is limited to the Northern European and Atlantic economies. The ‘History of Work Information System’ had different SPSS syntaxes for additional analyses of social classes (HISCLASS) and industries.
(P887)?URL:	https://iisg.amsterdam/en/data/data-websites/history-of-work
(P121)?Genre classification:	Classification/Taxonomy
(P15)?Medientyp:	Print publication, Online resource, Electronic publication
(P608)?Field of knowledge:	Historical studies, Social science, Work, career, social mobility
(P936)?Object types:	Profession, Occupational group, Professional qualification, Job characteristics
(P984)?Object type properties:	Occupational group, activity, competence, economic sector, qualification

Number of integrated items

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(P613)?Number of integrated items:	1.133 Standard designation(s), 200.000 Word/spelling variant(s)

Contact

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(P845)?Creator:	Andrew Miles, Ineke Maas, Marco Henk Dammes van Leeuwen
(P518)?Technically realized by:	IISG | International Institute of Social History
(P206)?Publisher:	—
(P153)?Postal address:	Cruquiusweg 31 | 1019 AT Amsterdam | Niederlande
(P722)?Email address:	mailto:mle@iisg.nl

Methodology

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(P280)?Variant:	Connection to authority control data, Data curation, Entity recognition, Quantitative analysis
(P575)?Design features:	List of terms with detailed definitions and rules
(P902)?Methodology:	Based on source terms (Applies to a small proportion), The technical terms have a theoretical concept (Applies (overall))
(P15)?Media type:	Print publication, Online resource, Electronic publication
(P1000)?Organisational structure:	Changes can only be made by professional administrators
(P999)?Sustainability:	The project is supported by a larger community in the medium term
(P942)?Number of hierarchy levels:	7
(P900)?Completeness:	Open for growth, completeness cannot be achieved, Partially achieved

Version

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(P18)?Language:	English, French, German, Spanish
(P1152)?Date of first publication:	2002
(P222)?Date of publication:	2015
(P939)?Versioning:	No versioning

Cross concordances

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(P898)?External matching:	Historical International Social Class Scheme | HISCLASS - Grad: Applies (overall) - Sprache: English, Historical Social Interaction and Stratification Scales | HISCAM - Grad: Applies (overall) - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: English, Ontology of the historical German-language nomenclature for offices and professions | OhdAB - Grad: Applies to a small proportion - Sprache: German
(P573)?Target group:	Research project, Researcher

Documentation

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(P382)?Specifications:	Exists, has been produced - Zitationsvorgabe: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas und Andrew Miles: HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations, Leuven 2002, ISBN: 90-5867-196-8. - URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10622/46299387-BAA3-49AD-945A-5C9AE23FBC27
(P978)?External tutorial:	Exists, has been produced - Zitationsvorgabe: Das Lexikon und Beschreibungen waren im Mai 2024 offline - URL: https://druid.datalegend.net/HistoryOfWork/HISCO-latest
(P180)?License:	Licence and copyright status unknown

Provision of data

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(P940)?Technology:	SPSS, Wikibase
(P125)?Status of possesio:	Complete download possible, Print publication, Search results partially visible in online interface
(P15)?Media type:	Print publication, Online resource, Electronic publication
(P937)?Referencing method:	Internal identifier(s)
(P903)?Data format:	CSV, SPSS SAV | Statistical Package for the Social Sciences data file
(P923)?API endpoint URL:	https://druid.datalegend.net/HistoryOfWork/HISCO-latest
(P941)?SPARQL endpoint URL:	—
(P995)?Services offered:	Advice - Notiz: Ausführliche Dokumentation, Advice - Notiz: Download aller HISCO-Daten: https://datasets.iisg.amsterdam/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10622/JA9B8O
(P950)?Cite as:	Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas und Andrew Miles: HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations, Leuven 2002, ISBN: 90-5867-196-8.

Dataset editing

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(P1302)?Dataset editing:	Katrin Moeller